WWE Friday Night SmackDown featured the return of AJ Styles to the Blue Brand as the former two-time WWE champion was traded from Raw “for a future pick.” Styles won his first-round match against Shinsuke Nakamura to advance in the Intercontinental Championship tournament.

WWE also announced a two-on-one match for the Universal Championship at Backlash pitting Miz and Morrison against quietly surging champion Braun Strowman.

It wasn’t too long ago that WWE sabotaged this pairing at WrestleMania by telling anybody who would listen it was a Dream Match. It wasn’t. Two years later, WWE still hasn’t learned its lesson as it’s doing a similar overhyped gimmick with Randy Orton and Edge.

AJ Styles was traded to SmackDown, which in WWE means he’ll be competing on Friday nights until we need him back on Raw in a couple weeks.

Dolph Ziggler and Sonya Deville def. Otis and Mandy Rose

Otis can’t expect to win all of his matches just because he has Money in the Bank. In fact, he can’t expect to win any of his matches as long as he has Money in the Bank, that’s just how WWE does things with that briefcase.

Hardy vs. Sheamus; Otis-Mandy vs. Dolph-Sonya; Bayley vs. Charlotte Flair and AJ Styles vs. Shinsuke Nakamura all on an empty-arena show nobody will remember next week. This entire show feels like Michael Jordan’s run with the Wizards.